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putting to sea, that there were no rations aboard for the troops. Consequently she returned on the 24th, and was to sail that afternoon, or on the 25th.

55. San Francisco Aha California, September 9, 1859. The Alta California for March 30, 1859, describes Robinson's Landing as a single house built on stilts above high water mark, some 140 miles by water south of Yuma. There was no fresh water to be had here and the surroundings were bleak and desolate.

56. The Sacramento Daily Uiiion, June 9, 1862, contains the announcement of the launching of a "new steamer" at Yuma. In all probability it refers to the launching of the Colorado or Cocopah after they had been repaired or remodeled.

57. The name George A. Johnson & Company was discarded in 1859. The Alta California for May 17, 1859, uses the name later adopted, "Colorado Steam Navigation Co."

58. MacMullen, op. cit., p. 25. A tax receipt issued October 25, 1862, shows that the Johnson Company was assessed on three steamers valued at $15,000.

59. San Francisco Alta California, December 13, 1863.

60. Hubert Howe Bancroft, "Scraps: Arizona Miscellany." LXXXII, Pt. i, 85.

Latter Day Saints, "Journal History of the Church," October 23, 1851 (MS in the church historian's office. Salt Lake City, Utah).

Salt Lake City Deseret News, April 2, 1853.

San Francisco Alta California, August 21, 1854. Colorado City later became the present-day Yuma, Arizona. It was situated across the river from Fort Yuma, California.

Ira J. Aliles and George W. Bean, "Record of the Las Vegas Mission, 1855-57" (MS in the historian's office. Latter Day Saints Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 17, 1855). All references are made by date rather than page.

"St. George Stake Records, 1847-1873" (MS in Latter Day Saints Temple, St. George, Utah), I. This work contains extracts taken from Amasa M. Lyman's journal of exploration, a complete day by day account of the expedition from April 4 to May 3, 1858.

Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 3, 1867. A complete account of the expedition is given.

67. San Francisco Alta California, July 7, 1861.

68. Bancroft, "Scraps: Arizona Miscellany," LXXXII, Pt. 2, 279.

69. William B. Rice, "Early Freighting on the Salt Lake-San Bernardino Trail," Pacific Historical Review, XI (March 1942), 75. Extracts from a journal of a trip from Great Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, 1853-54, made by the Salt Lake merchants, John and Enoch Reese, printed in the Los Angeles Star, February 18, 1854.

70. San Francisco Evening Bulletin, January 16, 1863.

71. San Francisco Alta Calif or?iia, April 2, 1864.

72. I bid.. May 8, 1864.

73. San Francisco Evening Bulletin, January 16, 1864. Members of the committee were Caleb S. Hobbs, chairman; Samuel Adams, James S. Hatstead, John N. Risdon, Wm. R. Wadsworth, and J. B. Chevalier.

74. Yuma Arizona Sentinel, September 28, 1878. The Victoria originally was a barge intended for use on the Yang Tse in China. Trueworthy rigged her out as a four-masted schooner. She was loaded with 400,000 feet of lumber for the construction of river barges and was sent to the Colorado. Here she ran afoul of her anchor, breaking a hole in her hull. She was later towed to Port Famine Slough and was accidentally burned there when the Indians fired the slough.

75. The Esmeralda was built in San Francisco by Pat Tienman. She had one deck and a square stern. Her dimensions are listed in the Record of Registers as follows: Length 93 feet, beam 20 feet, draft 2 feet 9 inches, and tonnage ^6^%ry

76. The Nina Tilden was built in San Francisco by Martin Vice and was launched on July 23, 1864. She had one deck, a square stern, was 98 feet long, 22 feet in width of beam,